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Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills

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Title: Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills
by Readers Digest
ISBN: 0-89577-939-0
Publisher: Readers Digest
Pub. Date: March, 1997
Format: Hardcover
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $30.00
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Average Customer Rating: 4.97 (29 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: A One-Volume Encyclopedia of Country Living Skills
Comment: If I could only have one reference book on simple skills for country living this is the one I'd pick. It has how-to-do-it narratives with a multitude of color illustrations, diagrams, and photos. The authors have endeavored to show how previous generations built their homes, produced and stored their food, clothed and entertained themselves without our high-technology gadgets. While each section may not be more than a page or two about a particular skill or task, it is replete with references to books and resources which can be turned to for detailed instruction. This will whet anyone's appetite for becoming a homesteader - even if it's only in your armchair. This is the kind of book kids (and grown-ups) love to read.

Rating: 5
Summary: Skills of yesterday brought back in a fun, practical way.
Comment: Back-to-Basics is a book filled with the old-fashioned way to do things. Its about living simple, and not always easy way. It shows you how to do things the self-reliant, independent way, the way our grandparents, and great-grandparents did. Everything doesnt have to come in a packaged, processed way. We forget these things. This book is sectioned into six parts. It deals with shelter, land, energy, and alot more. It gives basic, or more detailed, and picture, information for each instruction. It also gives sources and resourse for further, more indepth reading. Its a book to help you break out of cycle, if you want. Or just read it for fun. You never know when you may need it!

Rating: 5
Summary: a childs dream book
Comment: When I was growing up, my brothers and sisters and I would sit and read this book and look at the awesome pictures. We learned some good things by just looking at the vegetables and fruits. Godd stuff, all of it. Asan adult, this is best used as a gateway to understanding the "back to basics" "grassroots" movement. It has a list of other books to read at the end of each section that go further in depth. I still like to look at the pictures :)

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